This paper also kind of relates the communication of emotion, especially for the touch. So from this point, the Haptic Creature project that mimics a small pet seek to develop a deeper understanding of touch interaction between human and robot which contains companionship.
Overall, the Haptic Creature Project mainly focuses the goal about building up companionship between human and robot by investigating the use of affective touch. The approach is to leverage research in human-animal interaction by developing a robotic creature which interacts with the human through the modality of touch. And the Haptic Creature project is influenced by several parts like social interactive robotics, affect, touch and human-animal interaction as well.
For instance, by the author’s order, I want to mention something about the socially interactive robotics and affect display. As the author mentioned the affect display with the vision and audition play an important role on the social interaction,the use of facial expressions is commonly used to convey emotion.
Secondarily, regarding to affective touch and human-animal interaction, since the research focuses on the influence of affective touch on companionship, there are some reasons such as gender, familiarity, social status and culture which attribute the affective touch. The other one is differentiation,and the differentiation mainly have two parts, one is the concentration on the modality, another is the level of zoomorphism.
Therefore, roughly if we intend to explain to people how the haptic creature is, in the article it said that the haptic creature is a robotic device tat mimics a small lap animal such as a pet cat or dog, in this way which really makes a model of the affective interaction between human and animal. First of all, the creature interacts with the world primarily through the modality of touch and regulates its emotional state based on this interaction.
Nevertheless, the design consideration covers three major ones for the Haptic Creature, there are the interaction centers, providing an organic interaction whereby the sensing and in the level of zoomorphism. And then, the development phases are being conducted in three parts which are Wizard of Oz prototype, automated prototype and final creature.from those three, I would like to talk a little more about the automated prototype, this prototype is being used for rapid implementation and testing of software, hardware, and interaction techniques. Also, the haptic creature also contains the high-level architecture with low-level sensing, gesture recognizer, emoter, physical renderer, and low-level actuation.By those components the haptic creature can response to the human appropriately. Personally, I think the emoter has a huge function of architecture. also, those different components take affect with each other.
Since the author did the user studies which is important from my personal view, too. Through the preliminary investigation,interaction decomposition and companionship, the author try to get knowledge of the use of affective touch in socially interactive robotics.
Above all, the haptic creature focus on the affect of the touch interaction. In fact, I think the tough is very important for users to interact with the products which relates with people’s emotion and feelings, so besides developing the quality, such affective touch can offer beneficial function.
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